Want to hear about other awesome products?

I attack the darkness!

500 Lumen programmable LED flashlight

Arduino-compatible and open source

Way better than Magic Missile

Hello darkness, our old friend. We've come to talk with you again. You see, we're not so keen on you anymore. In fact, you've caused us quite a bit of angst, including: stubbed toes, tripping over lounging cats, getting lost in the woods, and more than a few beer goggle-esque moments regarding potential romantic partners.

That's why we're totally into high-powered flashlights. Mind you, we don't LOOK into them, but we are into them. The HexBright FLEX is a great contender right out of the box. It comes preprogrammed to provide low (50 lumens), medium (175 lumens), or high (500 lumens) output of light or even blink on button press. But it has an Arduino-compatible microcontroller that's open source, so you can customize the flashlight to fit your needs. Maybe you're clumsy and you want it to glow if it detects a fall so you can find it in the dark. Or maybe you want to set it to flash a short message in Morse code. Or maybe you want to set it to wait a beat after the button press so you can convince a friend some poor sucker to look into it before it comes on blazing 500 lumens. Not that we're suggesting that. Nope. Not even a little.